Anticreeper for railroad-rails.



0, F. VAUGHAN. ANTICREE PER FOR RAILROAD RAILS.

APPLICATION FILED 1AM. 22,1918.

' Patentedl Aug. 20, 2 SHEETSSHEET d u J D. F. VAUGHAN. ANTICREEPER FOR RAILROAD RAILS.

APPLICATION FILED 1AN.22,1918- Patented Aug. 20,191&

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specification 01" Letters Patent.

Application filed January 22, 1918. Eerie! at. 213,122.

To all whom e't may concern:

Be it known that I, Devin l VAUGHAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Riverton, in the county (if-Burlington and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anticreepore for lRiailroadRails, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in that type of anticreepers for railroad rails, which are. adapted to grip a rail base and engage a stationary part of the road bed and thereby prevent the creeping or longitudinal displacement of the rail.

The object of my invention is to provide an anticreeper possessing novelty and ntility wherein a s1ngle element may be caused to grip a rail base by the resiliency or spring action thereof, engaging the bottom of the rail base and the top of the respective sides of the same with a twisting force exerted by said element, as it tends to resume its normal condition from which it is sprung when applied to the rail base and thereby produce a grip upon the rail whichshall be strong, durable and eificient under all conditions when the anticreeper is in service.

l/Vith the above and related objects in view, my invented anticreeper consists of the novel constrtuztion combinations and arrangements of the elements thereof, as will he hereinafter fully described and particularly claimed.

in the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention.

Figure 1 is a plan view of my in proved antiereeper applied to a railroad rail edgeeent to cross-tie, v

is a side elevation thereof,

Fig. 3 is a cross section through the rail, on line 3-3 of Fig. 2, showing the anticreeper in the distance,

ig. lis-a view, showing the device in position to be applied to the rail. n a

5 is a view of a modified rorrn or the antioreeper applied to the rail,

Fig; '8 is a plan view of the parts shown Fig. l is a view oi the separate spring element employed with the anticreeper shown in Fins. 5 and 6.

listening to the drawings, 2 designates portion of a cross tie and e a railroad rail supported thereon, The cross-tie 2 rorms 57 a stationary part of the road heel, and the i In addition to parts of the anticreeper,

rail 4 is of usual construction including the .usual base 5. l

My improved anticreeper is applied to the rail 4 and is of the-following construction: gEntending transversely'beneath the rail base is body portion of the anticreeper. llhe bar 6 is arched or cambered, as illustrated, and the top of the arch or camber provides a bearing lace '4' which is adapted to bear against the bottom of the rail base 5 inwardly of the side edges thereof and from which the end portions of the bar extend downwardly in spaced relation to the base 5.

@no end of the bar 6 is provided with a jaw 8 which extends upwardly-and inwardly therefrom and is provided with a lower hearing face 9 adapted to engage the top of one side of the rail base 5; and the other end of the bar 6 is provided with a jaw 10 which extends upwardly and inwardly therefrom and is provided with a lower hearing face 11 adapted to engage thetop of the other side of the rail base 5'.

When the anticreeper is in normal condition and before it is applied to the rail hose 5 the parts of the device are related to each other as shown inhig. d; that is to say thebearing face 7 is closer to the hearing laces 9 and 11 than when the device is applied to a rail, or the bearing face 7 is above the plane of the bottom of the rail base Swith relation to the bearing face 9 and ll, as shown by dot-and-dash lines in Figs. 3 and 5, so that the anticreeper is applied to the rail, as will he presently explained, the jaws 8 the bar 6 will he sprung apart to the condition shown by the normal relationof the as just described, the jaws 8 and 10 are deflected laterally on the respective sides of the bar *8, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, for the purpose of exerting a twisting action on the entire device when it is applied to the rail,

The jaw 8 is made longer than the jaw 10 and the spaces between the jaws 8 and ill and between thorn and the bar 6 are large enough to permit the application of the device to the rail laterally thereof by first hooking the jaw 8 over one side of the rail base 5, then raising the bar 6 to bring its hearing'iace Tl up against the hottono oi the rail lease 5 and bringing the bearing face Patented fling. 2d, 191180 a member or bar 6 which constitutes the.

and 10 and the end portions of full lines in Figs. 3 and 5.

versely beneath a wardly and inwa rail base and to. engage two jaws extending uprdly from the respective ends of the bar and adapted to engage the top of a rail base, to exert a twistin said jaws being disposed g action upon the device when it is applied to a rail, and a spring within said socket and adapted to. exert pressure against the bar and a rail base when the device is applied to the latter.

In testimony whereof I .afiix my signature hereto: 

